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HaveNoMouth writes "What happens when the founder of Xircom and his brother bolt a DV Camcorder to the side of a 200 lb. model rocket and press the red button? The incredible movies (with sound!) at Gates Bros. Rocketry tell the tale. The quality of these movies is by far the best I've seen from the "strap a camera to a flying toy" community. They have a nice gallery of still photos too.
If only everyone named Gates did stuff this cool."
Tens of thousands of USD is blown up in the air and converted into a couple of movies which can be shown on Slashdot so that we can make insightful comments like this?
I guess it'd be an improvement over strapping someone to a rocket then hoping they survived the landing so they could tell you about it.
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So I build this nice, trim little single stage rocket (solid fuel), and my brother talks me into strapping another zero delay motor onto the bottom....it went fine until the tagged on motor lit the main motor....the rocket tumbled just for an instant, and when the main motor fired, the rocket was horizontal...it quickly made it to a nearby freeway and took out an aged Mustang. We figured since lunch was almost over we'd just as soon head back to the lab and quietly call it a day. A camera on that one would have shown one ticked off Mustang owner, I'm sure.
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Don't know if I have the nerve to sacrifice a DV camera...but maybe someone else's camera would be ok
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What happens when the founder of Xircom and his brother bolt a DV Camcorder to the side of a 200 lb. model rocket and press the red button?
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You prove to NASA that it can be done cheaply?
-mo
Wouldn't it be better and more rewarding to give the money to charity than to just blow up DV camcorders.
No.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
Of course, you'd need a separate server & bandwidth for the camera feed, so that we can actually see the slashdotting. Then we need a camera (with its own server & bandwidth) to see the blinkenlights on the first camera's server so that we can see it being slashdotted. Then we need a third camera to see the blinkenlights on the second camera's server...
OLPC Australia
Is it really really neccessary to have a cheap shot at MS no matter how little the post might be related?
yes.
Why don't we just have a default sig "Windoze sucks, Linux rulez."?
we do.
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Windoze sucks, Linux rulez.
Piglet was firmly taped to a display firework rocket (one of those damn huge ones), head facing the sky before being fired into the sky. Can you say "Pigs in Spaaaaaaace!" ;) :)
I wish we could have had a Piglets eye view of it, we kept finding bits of piglet in nearby streets for days
I'm sorry, but I'm thinking of those FoxTrot comics where Marcus and Jason attach the video camera to the rocket which upsets the balance and it flies straight at them. Something along those lines happaned to me once.
Which, on a good enough story, would result in the world's first recursive slashdotting.
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If only everyone named Gates did stuff this cool.
If only everyone named Gates could create a web server that could take a slashdotting.
I hope you're not pretending to be evil while secretly being good. That would be dishonest.
"If only everyone named Gates did stuff this cool."
:)
What? Windows for Warheads?
For one, JVC and Canon camcorder models mentioned in the site get shock certified at 0.6 Mach speed, with forces exceeding 1G. Wow!
The speed is impressive, but I certainly hope it could handle more than 1G. Otherwise, you couldn't pick it up off a table without breaking it.